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with a chauffeur and a private castle in
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for his fame and talent. By the end of the 1950s, however, the public and art community turned strongly against him due to changing artistic tastes, Buffet's lavish lifestyle, and his extremely prolific output. The 21st century saw a renewed interest in his oeuvre.
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held a large retrospective of his work, the first held in France since his death, though its curator acknowledged that it was a risky exhibition given Buffet's lingering reputation as the "ultimate in bad taste". Also in 2016, British author
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in 1952. In 1955, he was awarded the first prize by the magazine
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in the public's views of him. Another magazine published photographs of Buffet's lifestyle--large castle, expensive furniture, well-fed dogs--alongside the miserable figures of his paintings to implicitly accuse him of hypocrisy.
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At the request of the French postal administration in 1978, he designed a stamp depicting the
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On 12 December 1958, Buffet married the writer and actress
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Bernard Buffet was born in 1928 in Paris, where he spent his childhood. He was from a middle-class family with roots in
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was Buffet's live-in lover for eight years from 1950 to 1958, recalling later that the two were "never apart for a single day." In 1958, Bergé left Buffet for Yves Saint
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victims, but he also portrayed subjects as varied as ashtrays, clowns, and table lamps. His work was characterized by thick black lines, elongated forms, and a lack of
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during the Nazi occupation of Paris. He travelled to drawings courses in the evenings despite the curfew imposed by the Nazi authorities. He then studied art at the
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